Kemetic Pagan FAQ

Here is a FAQ i have made after having allot of people asking me about my religion, enjoy.

1. So what is this "Kemetic" thing all about?

It's the reconstruction of ancient Egyptian religion, combining as much scholarly knowledge and comparative religion as possible with dollops of
personal gnosis.

2. Why "Kemetic"? What does the word mean?

Kemet was one of the terms the ancient Egyptians used for their country; it means 'Black Land'. This describes the fertile Nile valley, as opposed
to the Red Land, the desert, that surrounded it.

3. So you're an Isis worshipper, then?

Not all Kemetics are devoted to Aset (Isis), though many of the people who came to the religion did so because of interest in Her. (The other two
Names who are known for bringing people into the religion are Anpw (Anubis) and Bast.)

4. Anpu? Aset? What are these names?

Most Kemetics prefer to use the ancient Egyptian names for the gods; they have meaning in the Egyptian language and are more accurate. The well-known
names for the Egyptian gods are actually in Greek (you can identify them because they tend to end in -is) and date to Greek rule of the country and
re-interpretation of the religion.

The House of Netjer (the oldest of the Kemetic temples) has a glossary that includes both the Greek and the Egyptian names and associates them with
each other.

5. I thought Isis and Osiris were the primary gods in the Egyptian pantheon.

The myth of Isis and Osiris is probably the best-known of the Egyptian myths. (The short version being that Asar (Osiris) is killed by His brother,
Set; His grieving widow finds Him, briefly reanimates His body, and Her son Herw-sa-Aset (Horus, son of Isis) takes His vengeance on His uncle.) That
does not mean that it is the most important of the myths to the Egyptians themselves, just the one that has lasted and been most popular over time.
(Probably largely because Isis of the Thousand Names was very popular in the ancient world, and because it is the easiest set of myths to fit into a
narrative story.)

That particular pair of gods has additionally gained a certain amount of popularity in the modern pagan community because the dying-and-reborn god
motif is one that most people familiar with Wiccan theology can relate to.

6. Not Wiccan, then. Are there Kemetic Wiccans?

There is a tradition of Wicca called Tameran Wicca, which interacts with the Netjerw. (Tameran is another word deriving from an Egyptian word for
Egypt; this one is from Ta-Mery, which means 'beloved land'.) There is a book on Tameran Wicca called Circle of Isis, by Ellen Cannon Reed; I would
recommend it strongly to anyone who is interested in interacting with the Netjerw in a neopagan context. She writes about the gods in a way that
sounds like she knows the gods I know.

Tameran Wicca is a Wiccan structure, however; it is not Kemetic. Because the Kemetic ideal is a reconstruction, it uses ritual structures and
practices that resemble those of the ancients instead of the modern neopagan structure.

7. So how does a Kemetic ritual structure differ from a Wiccan one?

There is no casting and dismissing of circle or elements; ideally, every practitioner has their own sacred space that is dedicated and established as
a stable portion of their household.

Typically, a given ritual will include libations of cool water, offerings of fire and incense, and other offerings depending on the practitioner and
the festival. It is important that all things offered be consumed, so most Kemetics don't offer things they will not or cannot eat. The gods consume
the spiritual layer of the food, and the offerers consume the material; thus a ritual often contains components of a shared meal.

Most Kemetics prefer to keep their images of the gods in some kind of enclosed area except when they are performing rituals; a shrine cabinet is
called a naos. (The images of the gods were kept in cabinets in ancient times; They like Their privacy.)

8. Where do these rituals come from?

They are basically attempts to duplicate what we know of the rituals that were performed daily in ancient Egyptian temples. Some of the pieces were
translated and extrapolated from wall inscriptions and surviving papyrus, and others from the continuing practices of modern African Traditional
Religions.

We do not know what the private rituals and practices of the ancients were like in their homes, though most homes included some sort of shrine space.
However, because we know that the ancients strongly believed in repetition and consistency, and also that the Wab priests (purity priests) typically
served three months of the year in the temple and the rest of the time working as regular people, we presume that the home rituals were similar to
temple rituals.

9. So do you have a Pharaoh?

The question of the Nisut-Bity (the Egyptian term for Pharaoh -- which derives from per-a'a, 'great house'; the word was used for the king and
royal family in much the same way 'The White House' is used for the administration of the US or '10 Downing Street' for the Prime Minister of the
UK) is a very tricky one for Kemetics. The ancients believed that the Nisut was the Living Horus, the linchpin between the seen world and the unseen
world, the one who kept the people and the gods in contact by his work. (I say 'his', because although there were several female Pharaohs, all of
them adopted male social portrayals as part of their role.)

Different temples have taken different approaches to this question. The Kemetic Orthodox have a Nisut, Rev. Tamara Siuda. Other temples have noted
that the senior priesthood in ancient times existed as those who could act in the name of the Nisut, and have established priesthoods but not named a
Nisut. Other organisations and individuals may have established other answers to the question of Nisut, but no Kemetic organisation can really afford
not to think about it.

10. Different temples? How many temples are there?

I know of four: the House of Netjer (Kemetic Orthodox), Per Ankh (Kemetic Traditional Religion), Per Heh (Veridical Kemetic Faith), and Akhet Hwt-Hrw.
There are also a number of people who are not affiliated with any temple or with several.

The temples each have their issues and their differences in theology. If you want to join a temple, have a look at all of them and see what seems to
suit your needs. Most offer some sort of free introductory course to introduce you to the religion.

11. I've heard people objecting to the word "Kemeticism". Why is that?

"Kemeticism" was first coined by an African ethnically based movement, I believe sometime in the sixties. Some people object to having Kemetic
reconstruction called "Kemeticism" because of that.

Other people sort of go, "Kemetic really needs a noun form and 'Kemetic reconstruction' takes forever to say and I don't mean one of the specific
variants but the whole shebang" and don't worry so much about it.

"Kemetism" is also used, though not as often, and does not seem to raise the same objections as a noun form.

While the ancients recognised that other peoples tended towards having different physical appearances, they did not have the same obsession with
race/ethnicity that many modern people do. Evidence from studying remains and records suggests that they tended to intermarry across ethnicities
without significant thought for most of their history, which suggests that there were probably many Nubian-appearing Egyptians in the south near
Nubia, shading smoothly to more Semitic, North African, or Mediterranean appearance in the Delta region.

The artistic canon was very strict; anyone who was classified as "Egyptian" would be portrated in a particular way, whether or not that actually
described their physical appearance at all. (The sole exception to the images of young, slim, attractive, golden-skinned, black-haired figures would
be accomplished elder men, who could be portrayed grey-haired and with hints of belly, indicating wealth.) This appears to be a matter of nationality
more than ethnicity, again, from the records; other nations also had canonical representations.

The exception to this tendency towards intermarriage and nationality over ethnicity is the Greek occupation late in Egypt's history; the Greeks
tended to stick to enclaves and mostly married among themselves, especially in the upper classes.

The short answer is: we don't know, unless the question's about one of the Ptolemaic Pharaohs, who were all Greek.

13. Is Kemeticism pagan?

Most Kemetic organisations would say that they are not pagan, but rather an African Traditional Religion. A number object to being categorised by what
they either consider a Christian term or a term that is younger than their religion is.

On the other hand, many individual Kemetics refer to themselves as pagan. Reconstruction in general and Kemetic reconstruction in specific both came
about as part of the modern pagan movement and revival, and several of the Kemetic temples are active participants in various pan-pagan gatherings.

14. I want to study Egyptology. What sort of background should I have?

Most of the cutting-edge Egyptology research is being originally published in French and German; in order to make progress in Egyptology studies
you'll need to have some ability with those languages. (I don't know off the top of my head if these languages are prerequisites for Egyptology
degrees, or whether the courses include training in them.)

If you're interested in being an educated layman on the subject, a large number of these good books are available in translation.

15. So what books should I look for?

Faulkner is the translator I've heard most generally spoken well of; his Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian is recommended. James Hoch wrote a
grammar titled Middle Egyptian Grammar that is used for some language courses.

Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods (Meeks) is a good general overview, as is The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt (Hornung). For
people who have serious dedication, the work of Jan Assman is very good but also remarkably dense, and Morenz's Egyptian Religion is detailed but
somewhat dry.

There is very little out there from the modern Kemetic's perspective; look for works by Kerry Wisner and Tamara Siuda.

16. The one and the many? What does that mean?

Like many African religions to this day, the ancient Egyptians believed in one ultimate divine force, incomprehensible to humans because of its
vastness and potency, that manifested a variety of other forms partially in order to become accessible to humans. The one is called Netjer, which
means something loosely like 'divine power'; the word for the gods of the pantheon is also netjer, but not generally capitalised, and its plural is
netjerw.

The netjerw in general tend to diffuse roles; it seems to be in the nature of Netjer to defy ready categorisation. A good rule of thumb is that any
claim that an Egyptian god is "the god of X" will be inaccurate at best, actively misleading at worst. Several Names are interpreted by some to be
forms, guises, or aspects of other Names; others share duties in a complicated way that does not quite overlap; many will syncretise readily with
other forms in order to address some specific function.

Some people find this tricky.

17. Why are you capitalising the word "names"? What's so special about names?

Names are the foundation of the universe; one of the components of the soul is the true name. "Names", capitalised, is short for "Names of
Netjer". Most of the names of the Names have a literal meaning that is evocative of some portion of Their function; some of those names are even used
as titles of other gods.

One of the myths of creation has the creator netjer speaking the world into existence, naming all of its parts and making them manifest. Kemetics, as
a general rule, take language very seriously; it is inherently magical, containing the essence of creation.

18. Magical? So you cast spells?

Not quite. The Kemetic word for magic is "heka", which means "authoritative speech" (going back to words). All language has the capacity to shape
and define the world.

Kemetic magic is almost always set down in writing or spoken. It may have other components to it, such as physical components or ritual acts, but the
spoken portion is usually the most essential. Heka is not something separate from everyday life; it is a tool the gods gave humans so they could have
the strength to deal with the world on their own, to deal with nefarious influences and the forces of isfet.

19. What's isfet?

Isfet is a form of destructive chaos, uncreation, un-naming. It is personified in Apep (Apophis), the great serpent that tries to devour the sunboat
while it is travelling in the underworld at night. It is imbalance or impurity. How isfet manifests in each person's life will be different, but many
people can identify the sort of turmoil that leaves them feeling undone, as if their selfness is being stripped away and destroyed, their sense of
identity: that is isfet. Isfet acts counter to ma'at.

Apep can only be slain by Set, though most all of the netjerw are involved in the process in some way.

20. So what's ma'at?

Ma'at is the force that binds people together into communities. It demands health within the self, within the interactions with family and community,
and with the cosmos as a whole. Ma'at is the ideal, the universe still in the perfection that was creation, before it started to accumulate dust: it
is also personified as the netjert (goddess) Ma'at, whose symbol is the ostrich feather. The balances of the afterlife are weighing the heart -- the
seat of the Kemetic soul -- to judge whether it has acted in accord with the balance of ma'at.

We believe that our hearts are created true, that ma'at lives within them. The difficult part is figuring out how to listen to our hearts and to
allow that ma'at that emanates from them to suffuse our actions. This is one of the primary purposes of our rituals: to bring ourselves back into
alignment with our hearts and the essential beauty of creation.

21. Wait a moment. Only Set can kill Apep? I thought Set was the god of evil or something.

There is no "god of evil". Set governs chaos, conflict, (male) sexuality, the desert, storms, and becoming strong through overcoming difficulties.
His role in the cosmos is to destroy that which needs to be broken down, to test people and gods alike so that they can become strong, and to turn
chaos against chaos and destroy that would go beyond mere destruction to uncreating.

Set's got a bad rap, really. That whole killing-his-older-brother thing causes him inordinate amounts of bad press -- but had Asar not died and taken
up kingship of the underworld, there would be no afterlife, and souls when they left life would simply cease to be, as they would have nowhere to
persist.

The popular conception of Set as some kind of big bad guy owes a fair amount to the fact that the Hyksos seem to have identified Him with their
supreme god during the period when they ruled Egypt; this association with unwelcome invaders dented His mythos significantly. He regained popularity
with the Ramesside Pharaohs of the 19th Dynasty in the New Kingdom (who seem to have considered Him their family patron; many of them were reputed to
be redheads, a trait associated with Set, and names such as 'Seti' were common). By the Greek period, however, He was associated and syncretised
with Typhon, who is a significantly less ambiguous character; His myths were changed to cast Him in a more universally hostile and antagonistic role.

22. So are you a death-worshipper or death-obsessed or something? The ancient Egyptians were.

Actually, no, they weren't.

The ancient Egyptians were a vivacious and life-fixated people, for the most part. They enjoyed food and wine and what items of luxury they could
find; they were the perfumery center of the ancient world, and were renowned for both their enthusiastic festivals (some of which had people
travelling hundreds of miles along the Nile so they could attend) and their comparatively unconservative sexuality.

There were two major threads in the Egyptian attitudes towards death. One of these was mostly positive: a belief that life persisted after death,
powered in part by the immortality of the name as remembered by family members and written on tomb walls, and that that life was much the same as it
is among the living. For this purpose, tombs were made to serve as homes for the dead, their names were written many times on the walls to ensure
immortality, goods were provided so that the dead would have wealth to bring with them, and they were also supplied with spells and charms to guide
them on the transition between corporeal life and the afterlife (The Book of Coming Forth By Day, popularly known as the Book of the Dead) and magical
items (ushabti) which were expected to animate in the afterlife and take care of the chores that otherwise the dead would have to perform for
themselves. It could be said that the massive funereal housing that was created for the dead was a sign of such a great love of life that it was
expected to be needful to provide for its persistence after death, so that the joy would continue.

The process of mummification and the belief in the need for the preservation of the body probably grew out of the way a desert environment produced
natural mummification. People learned how to duplicate this process and embellished it with magical ritual in order to facilitate that immortality
that preserved even facial features after death. In addition, they recognised the possibility that bodies might be damaged or destroyed, and included
statues and images of the deceased wherever possible. (The ancients were strong believers in backups.)

Further, there was no belief that the dead could necessarily reach the afterlife on their own. The Book of Coming Forth By Day was one form of aid
that people received to make the transition; proper funerary treatment, mourning, and prayer were considered essential to providing the necessary
resources to the spirit in transition to aid their ascent. A spirit which does not ascend is not merely a lost soul, but a dangerous one, likely to
wreak havoc in the world of the living.

At the same time, there was an underlying doubt that this was sufficient, and a profound terror that the preparations for death were all for naught.
At the same time people would write letters to their akhu -- their glorified dead -- they expressed doubt that they could survive the transition. The
belief that death was a form of uncreation, of the destruction of self, was also extensive. Even when it was not quite nonexistence, the conceptions
of the afterlife sometimes included hosts of various demonic figures that would not seem excessively strange to those familiar with the hells of other
religions.

The tensions between the celebration of life and its persistence into the beyond and the terror of it as an ultimate manifestation of isfet are all
through the imagery and writings of the ancients. The multiplicity of visions of the afterlife and of the Duat, home of the dead, is quite extensive,
ranging from the Field of Reeds to an eternity of sleep perhaps broken daily by the passage of the sun barque on through the intervention of demonic
forces and dissolution of the self.

23. Aren't the animal heads sort of weird? Doesn't that make it difficult to take your gods seriously?

No, not especially.

Most of the gods have several canonical forms; individual Kemetics have had experiences that go outside the canon as well. The Netjer are not bound to
a particular shape, even those who are not especially known for their shapeshifting capability; They appear as pleases Them and as is evocative of
Their power.

Consider Herw (Horus): He is typically represented as a hawk or a hawk-headed man. His name means 'The Distant One' and one of His resonances is the
sky; the ancients recognised Him in the distant, wheeling hawks that circled at the edge of vision.

Many animals and plants are recognised as potential vessels for Netjer, especially those Names that are affiliated with them. The way in which Netjer
exists all through the natural world is enhanced by their iconography.

It's the reconstruction of ancient Egyptian religion, combining as much scholarly knowledge and comparative religion as possible with dollops of
personal gnosis.

What do/will you do when some new information about ancient Egyptian religion is discovered? Is the new (accepted) information automatically
incorporated? How about if it drastically changes something?

Hmmm.. i haven't heard of this theory before, could you explain a bit, you have me interested now?

I will try but as I dont have my notes to hand I will have to wing it and use memory
( always a dangerous practice as the years go by)

The theory as I recall draws on several different aspects of both biblical and nonbiblical
records of the activities of Jeshua during the missing years. It also draws parallels
between the ancient Judaic beliefs and Practices before the Goddess ( Shekanah sp?)
was banned from the temple ( around the time of the return from Babylon as I recall).

The Pillars of jochin and Boaz and their placement and similarity to pillars of the same type in Egypt before the Pharohs ( northern and southern as
I recall) and a lintle stone(symbolizing stability and unification) that joined them after Egypt was united under the Pharohs.

The Missing Years:
The period between Jeshua and family fleeing Herod and the Appearance of Jeshua
at the Temple with the Elders.

In most readings today this passage is translated as Jeshua was 12 yrs. old. In older
translations from say 35 + years ago ( when I was a kid) It read " when he was in his 12th year. This has a completely different meaning. If he
was in his 12th year
that would be the 12th year of his joining the adult community, or 12 years after his
barMitzapha. placing him at 24 - 26 years of age, and having been married for
as much as 12 yrs per the customs of the time.

During this period of 20 years or so he was in and around the Jewish communities
of Egypt it is believed or at least suggested that he studied the beliefs of the
Egyptian people , maybe even in an organized setting (school ?) . It is also thought that he might have on his return to Israel studied at Qumran.

Anyway at some point he is supposed to have seen the parallels between ancient Judism and the Isinian/Osirian beliefs and perhaps melded the two.

Mary Magdalene ,
Most who believe, at least in the possibility of this theory, believe Mary to have
been The Daughter of the High Priest of the Temple @ Capernaum and later A Priestess of the Temple herself possibly/probably The High Priestess. It
is also
believed that she was of the Tribe of Benjamin , ( of the Royal House) to whom
Jerusalem was given in the beginning and userped by David.

It is thought that Jeshua was not proclaming a new Religion/ belief but a return
to an older way.

...We want objective realities, not absurd and incoherent dreams. I could not accept dreams; I want objective realities and this is what I wish for
all of you. All those objective realities are possible when indeed the Consciousness has been objectified. But it is not possible to objectify the
Consciousness if before one has not passed through the Buddhist Annihilation (this term "Buddhist Annihilation" scares the members of many
schools).

Indeed, the "annihilation," is something that bothers the schools of cheap pseudo-esotericism and pseudo-occultism. This happens because the Ego
does not want to pass through any annihilation; the ego wants to live, at any cost; it does not Desire such annihilation.

Obviously, my dear brethren, we have to comprehend the Doctrine of the Many. Some people have stated that I took the Doctrine of the Pluralized "I"
from Gurdjieff, and "How can that be possible that I, the Avatar of Aquarius, took it from him..." Well, they are mistaken, because, I have not
taken this doctrine from Gurdjieff, nor is Gurdjieff the author of this doctrine. Gurdjieff took this doctrine from Tibet; it is a Tibetan doctrine.
I took this doctrine from the Egypt of the Pharaohs. I knew it in Egypt. I also knew this doctrine in many other ancient schools. However, the
first ones who taught this doctrine were the Avatars of Lemuria. So, Gurdjieff took it from Tibet and I took it from Egypt.

Thus, I do not think that it is wrong, the fact that I took it from Egypt. In ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs, the "I" was not known as "ego"
("ego" is a Latin Word); the pluralized "I" was called Seth, and the psychic aggregates, cited by the Tibetans (not exclusively by Mr. Gurdjieff),
were known as "the Red Demons of Seth."

We, the Egyptians, knew - and I say "we, the Egyptians" because I am an Egyptian, because this brain that I presently am using in order to think and
to speak has been 4,000 years under the earth... [Editor: this lecture was given after he had absorbed the ancient mummy he had left in Egypt many
centuries ago.]

We state that Horus was captured by the Red Demons of Seth. When we were speaking in this manner, we wanted to state or to explain to our devotees
that the Red Demons of Seth had trapped the human Consciousness.

The devotees of the High and Low Nile understood it, and in general all of us were in a fight against the Red Demons of Seth. Obviously, what I mean
is that we were fighting against the "I's" that personify a determined error; and speaking in strict Tibetan language, we were fighting against the
psychic aggregates that personify our errors.

In Tibet, the Doctrine of the Many is the foundation of "Lamaism." [Editor: This term was used in the previous century to describe Tibetan
Buddhism.] There is no doubt that Mr. Gurdjieff, who lived as Lama in Tibet, extracted the doctrine in order to teach it in the western
world...

If one turns to those wells of information, "The Natural Genesis" and the Lectures of Mr. Gerald Massey, the proofs of the antiquity of the
doctrine under analysis become positively overwhelming. That the belief of the author differs from ours can hardly invalidate the facts. He views the
symbol from a purely natural standpoint, one perhaps a trifle too materialistic, because too much that of an ardent Evolutionist and follower of the
modern Darwinian dogmas. Thus he shows that "the student of Bohme's books finds much in them concerning these Seven Fountain Spirits and primary
powers, treated as seven properties of nature in the alchemistic and astrological phase of the mediaeval mysteries;"* and adds --

"The followers of Bohme look on such matter as divine revelation of his inspired Seership. They know nothing of the natural genesis, the history and
persistence of the Wisdom** of the past (or of the broken links), and are unable to recognise the physical features of the ancient Seven Spirits
beneath their modern metaphysical or alchemist mask. A second connecting link between the Theosophy of Bohme and the physical origins of Egyptian
thought, is extant in the fragments of Hermes Trismegistus.*** No matter whether these teachings are called Illuminatist, Buddhist, Kabalist, Gnostic,
Masonic, or Christian, the elemental types can only be truly known in their beginnings.**** When the prophets or visionary showmen of cloudland come
to us claiming original inspiration, and utter something new, we judge of its value by what it is in itself. But if we find they bring us the ancient
matter which they cannot account for, and we can, it is natural that we should judge it by the primary significations rather than the latest
pretensions.***** It is useless for us to read our later thought into the earliest types of expression, and then say the ancients meant that.*
Subtilized interpretations which have become doctrines and dogmas in theosophy have now to be tested by their genesis in physical phenomena, in order
that we may explode their false pretensions to supernatural origin or supernatural knowledge.*
But the able author of the "Book of the Beginnings" and of "The Natural Genesis" does -- very fortunately, for us -- quite the reverse. He
demonstrates most triumphantly our Esoteric (Buddhist) teachings, by showing them identical with those of Egypt. Let the reader judge from his learned
lecture on "The Seven Souls of Man."** Says the author: --

"The first form of the mystical SEVEN was seen to be figured in heaven by the Seven large stars of the great Bear, the constellation assigned by the
Egyptians to the Mother of Time, and of the Seven Elemental Powers."

Schwaller de Lubicz was a Theosophist as well, and according to this article...:

Originally posted by stalkingwolf
The theory as I recall draws on several different aspects of both biblical and nonbiblical
records of the activities of Jeshua during the missing years. It also draws parallels
between the ancient Judaic beliefs and Practices before the Goddess ( Shekanah sp?)
was banned from the temple ( around the time of the return from Babylon as I recall).

Well remember that Moses was a Kemetian Priest himself:

"22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds." - Acts 7

When one has studied even just intellectually(with at least a little intuition) the Tree of Life of the Hebrews, the Paut Neter, Alchemy, Buddhist
Cosmology of the Bodhi Tree, along with the various Yogas and Tantras; it is obvious that there is a Universal Secret Doctrine, Gnosis or Divine
Wisdom that underlies all Religions.

The Hebrew Prophets were Adepts in Kemetian Alchemy, Chaldean Astrology and the various Yogas and Tantras.

The Shekinah(probably where we get the English word "She") of the Hebrews is related to the Shekem, Seker/Sekert and
Sekhmet of the Kemetians, Shakti and Shiva of the Indus-Kush, Shemesh-Aun(Samson) of the Hebrews, etc. and the list goes
on.

All this is related to the Sexual energy, or the Holy Spirit who is Shiva(Jehovah-Elohim) and His spouse the Divine Mother Kundalini who is
Shakti/Shekinah(who is also Yehowah-Elohim), which is all derived from the RA, the AIN SOPH AUR.

Set and the Tempting Serpent Apep(the anti-thesis of the Kundalini) are also related to the Sexual Energy.

This is why Muata Ashby refers to the orgasm as an act of Set in his "Egyptian Tantric Yoga".

Remember that the snake or serpent says: SSSSSSSSSSSSS...

This is also a Mantra to help in awakening the Kundalini, and it is said that this sound can also be heard when it actually awakens.

We have to defeat and then utilize our own internal Set or Satan in order to defeat Apep(the Kundartiguador); so that Set can propel the boat of
RA(Christus-Lucifer) and spread the Dharma to other Sentient Beings.

Our particular internal psychological trainer, Satan-Lucifer, has to be lifted from the pits of Hell and regain his status of the Brightest Angel in
Heaven(Christus-Lucifer/RA) within each one of us.

It is completely Sexual.

Samael Aun Weor teaches that we have to descend into the Ninth Sphere(the Sexual act without reaching orgasm), in order to comprehend the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil(Daath/Gnosis).

...During this period of 20 years or so he was in and around the Jewish communities
of Egypt it is believed or at least suggested that he studied the beliefs of the
Egyptian people , maybe even in an organized setting (school ?) . It is also thought that he might have on his return to Israel studied at Qumran.

Anyway at some point he is supposed to have seen the parallels between ancient Judism and the Isinian/Osirian beliefs and perhaps melded the two.

Mary Magdalene ,
Most who believe, at least in the possibility of this theory, believe Mary to have
been The Daughter of the High Priest of the Temple @ Capernaum and later A Priestess of the Temple herself possibly/probably The High Priestess. It
is also
believed that she was of the Tribe of Benjamin , ( of the Royal House) to whom
Jerusalem was given in the beginning and userped by David.

It is thought that Jeshua was not proclaming a new Religion/ belief but a return
to an older way.

sorry this has been a bit disjointed.

Speaking of Jeshua, He is also said to have been a Master of the Kemetian Mysteries, as well as the Tibetan and Mysteries of the Magi.

We know the life of the Great Master and we know that Jesus was really a complete man in the fullest sense of the Word. Jesus had a priestess wife,
because he was not an infrasexual. The wife of Jesus was evidently a complete Lady Adept, endowed with great secret powers. Jesus travelled through
Europe and was a member of a Mediterranean Mystery School. Jesus studied in Egypt and practised Sexual Magic with his priestess inside one of
the pyramids. That is how he recapitulated the initiations and later achieved the Venustic Initiation. Jesus travelled through Persia, India,
etc. Thus, the Great Master was a Master in the most complete sense of the word.

The Gnostic Movement of SAMAEL AUN WEOR is the synthesis/movement for the new Age of Aquarius.

All (Kriya) of the seven schools of Yoga are within Gnosis, yet, they are in a synthesized and absolutely practical way.

There is Tantric Hatha Yoga in the practices of the Maithuna (sexual magic). There is practical Raja Yoga in the work with the chakras. There is Gnana
Yoga in our practices and mental disciplines which we have cultivated in secrecy for millions of years. We have Bakti Yoga in our prayers and Rituals.
We have Laya Yoga in our meditation and respiratory exercises. Samadhi exists in our practices with the Maithuna and during our deep meditations. We
live the path of Karma Yoga in our upright actions, in our upright thoughts, in our upright feelings, etc.

The secret science of the Sufis and of the Whirling Dervishes is within Gnosis. The secret doctrine of Buddhism and of Taoism is within Gnosis. The
sacred magic of the Nordics is within Gnosis. The wisdom of Hermes, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed and Quetzalcoatl, etc., etc., is within Gnosis.
Gnosis is the Doctrine of Christ.

Jesus of Nazareth is truly the Man of synthesis. Jesus of Nazareth was an Essenian and he studied Hebraic wisdom. He had two masters (Rabbis) during
his infancy. Nevertheless and furthermore, in spite of his profound knowledge of the Zohar, Talmud and Torah, he is an Egyptian Initiate, an Egyptian
Mason. Jesus of Nazareth studied within the pyramid of Kefren. He is an Egyptian Hierophant. He also traveled through Chaldea, Persia, Europe, India
and Tibet. The travels of Jesus were not tourist travels, they were travels for the purpose of studying.

Secret documents exist in Tibet which show that Jesus, the Great Gnostic Master was in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, headquarters of the Dalai Lama.

Jesus visited the Cathedral of Jo Kang, the Holy Cathedral of Tibet. Tremendous was all of the knowledge that Jesus acquired in those countries and in
all of those ancient schools of Mysteries...

The Great Master Jesus delivered in a synthesized way all the knowledge of Buddhism, Hermeticism, Zoroastrianism, the Talmud, Chaldea, Tibet, etc.,
etc., etc., already summarized in his Gnosis.

Jesus did not found the Roman Catholic Church, but Jesus founded the Gnostic Church. The Gnostic Church existed in the times of Saint Augustine. This
is the Church which was known by Jeronimo, Empedocles, Saint Thomas, Marcion de Ponto, Clement of Alexandria, Tertulian, Saint Ambrosio, Harpocrates
and all of the first Fathers of the Church. In that epoch, the Church was named the Catholic Gnostic Church.

The Roman Catholic Church in its present form was not founded by Jesus. This Roman Church is a deviation or corruption, a fallen branch of the holy
Gnosticism. The Roman Catholic Church is a cadaver.

Humanity needs to return to the point of departure, it needs to return to the holy Gnosticism of the Hierophant Jesus. Humanity needs to return to the
primeval Christianity, to the Gnostic Christianity.

The doctrine of Jesus Christ is the doctrine of the Essenians, the doctrine of the Nazarenes, Peratisens or Peratas, etc., etc., etc.

...about the Hebrew letter MeM and Mary Magdalene and how every Master Mason should be studying this.

The Pillars of jochin and Boaz and their placement and similarity to pillars of the same type in Egypt before the Pharohs ( northern and
southern as I recall) and a lintle stone(symbolizing stability and unification) that joined them after Egypt was united under the Pharohs.

Yes, the Two Lands.

There is certainly Tantric/Alchemical symbolism in the Unification of the Two Lands of Kemet.

Reconciliation between Set and Heru in relation to the Shekem Power of the Kings that Ausar must rule.

See the writings of the authors I mentioned a couple posts back for more on this.

Jachin and Boaz are symbolic of Cosmic Universal Pillars.

These Two Pillars should be found symbolized within every Relgion that is Built upon the Rock and not on sand.

The Androgynous Elohim are the synthesis of the Two Pillars of Solomon's Temple.

Man and Woman united form a Divine Androgynous Creator Elohim.

The Stone that unites them is Yesod, Sex, related to Daath(they're both on the Middle Pillar of the Tree of Life).

The Stone is Peter, the Philosopher's Stone or the Brute Stone of Masonry that must be chiseled into the Perfected Stone...:

An Alchemical symbol of the Intimate Christ dressed with bodies of Gold. When acquired, this stone gives powers over nature. It is lost when thrown
in water (through fornication). When the stone is dissolved in (sexual) water, then the metallic Spirit is melted, and interior Magnes escapes. It is
said when this happens, one dissolves the stone in water on Saturday (Saturn = death). The Philosophical Stone is passes through phases of
development: black, red & white. It is also the Cubic stone of Yesod (Parsifal Unveiled), the stone that Jacob anointed with oil and "a Stone of
stumbling, a rock of offense."

Nicolas Valois: “It is a Stone of great virtue, and is called a Stone and is not a stone.”

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